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Inherited poetics and Indo-European cosmological structure in the Voluspá, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and the Telipinu myth

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Abstract

The article deals with the interpretation of the phraseological pattern [SKY and EARTH and WATER / SEA] for [ COSMOS] which occurs in the Old Norse poem Vǫluspá (3): it is argued for an interpretation of the phrase as a merism of structure [A + [B + C]], an analysis that finds support in the lexicon and phraseology of Latin, Greek, Hittite and Armenian, among others.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKosmos nel XXI secolo. Kosmos im XXI. Jahrhundert. Atti del Convegno della Associazione Italiana Alexander von Humboldt. Villa Vigoni, 11-14 Aprile 2019
PublisherVilla Vigoni Editore/Verlag
Pages147-152
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)978-88-908179-77
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Armenian
  • Germanic
  • Greek
  • HIttite
  • Homeric
  • Icelandic
  • Indo-European
  • Latin
  • Linguistics
  • Mythology
  • Old Norse
  • Poetics
  • Sanskrit
  • Vedic
  • comparative
  • historical

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